Re: properties, VT types, and Win32::OLE

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Ellery
Jan Dubois wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2008, Michael Ellery wrote: >> Given some object and a property: >> >> my $obj = new Win32::OLE("SOME.class"); >> my $val = $obj->{SomeProperty}; >> >> ...is there some way to determine the VT type of $val (or of >> SomeProperty, equivalently). I often run into st

RE: properties, VT types, and Win32::OLE

2008-02-04 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008, Michael Ellery wrote: > Given some object and a property: > > my $obj = new Win32::OLE("SOME.class"); > my $val = $obj->{SomeProperty}; > > ...is there some way to determine the VT type of $val (or of > SomeProperty, equivalently). I often run into strange problems where I > ex

properties, VT types, and Win32::OLE

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Ellery
Given some object and a property: my $obj = new Win32::OLE("SOME.class"); my $val = $obj->{SomeProperty}; ...is there some way to determine the VT type of $val (or of SomeProperty, equivalently). I often run into strange problems where I expect a 32 bit negative value from some property, but whe